Bible Cross References
Would
Numbers 20:3-5
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and complained: "It would have been better if we had died in front of the LORD's Tent along with the other Israelites.
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Why have you brought us out into this wilderness? Just so that we can die here with our animals?
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Why did you bring us out of Egypt into this miserable place where nothing will grow? There's no grain, no figs, no grapes, no pomegranates. There is not even any water to drink!"
Deuteronomy 28:67
Your hearts will pound with fear at everything you see. Every morning you will wish for evening; every evening you will wish for morning.
Joshua 7:7
And Joshua said, "Sovereign LORD! Why did you bring us across the Jordan at all? To turn us over to the Amorites? To destroy us? Why didn't we just stay on the other side of the Jordan?
2 Samuel 18:33
The king was overcome with grief. He went up to the room over the gateway and wept. As he went, he cried, "O my son! My son Absalom! Absalom, my son! If only I had died in your place, my son! Absalom, my son!"
Lamentations 4:9
Those who died in the war were better off than those who died later, who starved slowly to death, with no food to keep them alive.
Acts 26:29
"Whether a short time or a long time," Paul answered, "my prayer to God is that you and all the rest of you who are listening to me today might become what I am---except, of course, for these chains!"
1 Corinthians 4:8
Do you already have everything you need? Are you already rich? Have you become kings, even though we are not? Well, I wish you really were kings, so that we could be kings together with you.
2 Corinthians 11:1
I wish you would tolerate me, even when I am a bit foolish. Please do!
we had
Numbers 11:15
If you are going to treat me like this, have pity on me and kill me, so that I won't have to endure your cruelty any longer."
Numbers 14:2
They complained against Moses and Aaron, and said, "It would have been better to die in Egypt or even here in the wilderness!
Job 3:1
Finally Job broke the silence and cursed the day on which he had been born.
Job 3:10
Curse that night for letting me be born, for exposing me to trouble and grief.
Job 3:20
Why let people go on living in misery? Why give light to those in grief ?
Jeremiah 20:14-18
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Curse the day I was born! Forget the day my mother gave me birth!
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Curse the one who made my father glad by bringing him the news, "It's a boy! You have a son!"
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May he be like those cities that the LORD destroyed without mercy. May he hear cries of pain in the morning and the battle alarm at noon,
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for not killing me before I was born. Then my mother's womb would have been my grave.
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Why was I born? Was it only to have trouble and sorrow, to end my life in disgrace?
Jonah 4:8
After the sun had risen, God sent a hot east wind, and Jonah was about to faint from the heat of the sun beating down on his head. So he wished he were dead. "I am better off dead than alive," he said.
Jonah 4:9
But God said to him, "What right do you have to be angry about the plant?" Jonah replied, "I have every right to be angry---angry enough to die!"
flesh
Exodus 2:23
Years later the king of Egypt died, but the Israelites were still groaning under their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry went up to God,
Numbers 11:4
There were foreigners traveling with the Israelites. They had a strong craving for meat, and even the Israelites themselves began to complain: "If only we could have some meat!
Numbers 11:5
In Egypt we used to eat all the fish we wanted, and it cost us nothing. Remember the cucumbers, the watermelons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic we had?
to kill
Exodus 5:21
They said to Moses and Aaron, "The LORD has seen what you have done and will punish you for making the king and his officers hate us. You have given them an excuse to kill us."
Exodus 17:3
But the people were very thirsty and continued to complain to Moses. They said, "Why did you bring us out of Egypt? To kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?"
Numbers 16:13
Isn't it enough that you have brought us out of the fertile land of Egypt to kill us here in the wilderness? Do you also have to lord it over us?
Numbers 16:41
The next day the whole community complained against Moses and Aaron and said, "You have killed some of the LORD's people."
hunger
Deuteronomy 8:3
He made you go hungry, and then he gave you manna to eat, food that you and your ancestors had never eaten before. He did this to teach you that you must not depend on bread alone to sustain you, but on everything that the LORD says.
Jeremiah 2:6
They did not care about me, even though I rescued them from Egypt and led them through the wilderness: a land of deserts and sand pits, a dry and dangerous land where no one lives and no one will even travel.
Lamentations 4:9
Those who died in the war were better off than those who died later, who starved slowly to death, with no food to keep them alive.